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Innovations in International Health (IIH) is an innovation platform that facilitates multidisciplinary research to develop medical technologies for developing world settings.

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Archive for November 15th, 2010

Now there’s an app for fat! A Fast Company article posted on Friday writes about Japan NTT Communications’ app (under beta testing in January), which lets you take a picture of your plate and then reports how many calories are on it. According to Software Advice, in 2009, there were 733 medical apps for doctors and med students. Most of these apps are reference tools…now could there be one that looks at pictures and makes medical diagnoses?